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Five-Element Spec: Scope Before Coding

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By skillmds/skillmd (GitHub) · coding · 143 stars · scanned at commit 4467dd0

Translate a vague request or GitHub issue into a concrete, testable spec using five structured elements (problem, scope, acceptance criteria, edge cases, success criterion) before writing any code. Prevents scope creep, PR churn, and mid-implementation pivots.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'five-element-spec-scope-before-coding' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'five-element-spec-scope-before-coding' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named five-element-spec-scope-before-coding already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/skillmds/skillmd' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '4467dd0debe8f189ba78142ee57ec42aea84e623' -- 'plugins/create-prd-from-idea/skills/five-element-spec-scope-before-coding' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/create-prd-from-idea/skills/five-element-spec-scope-before-coding' ~/.agents/skills/'five-element-spec-scope-before-coding' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'five-element-spec-scope-before-coding' ~/.claude/skills/'five-element-spec-scope-before-coding' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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